Word: josquin
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Tokuno, who does much of MMV's research, says the Lutheran composers were some of the first musicians to write music that was "more entertainment style than restricted to the church." These "great Dutch music masters," including Heinrich Isaac and Josquin des Prez, were responsible for such innovations as homophony, homorhythms and playing tonally. Composers such as Tielman Susato and Pierre Phalez were also among the first music publishers and musicologists. These composers traveled throughout Europe, and their influence traveled with them...
Grove 6 offers not only updated biographies and bibliographies but greatly expanded coverage on forms, theory, cities and their musical traditions, instruments, musical sociology and institutions. A generation of scholarship has enhanced the reputations of such composers as Monteverdi, Palestrina, Lassus, Josquin, Vivaldi, Cimarosa and Donizetti. Entries on such late 19th century romantics as Bruckner and Mahler have been greatly expanded; the 20th century giant Stravinsky gets 30 columns of biography and discussion vs. nine in Grove...